Wayne and Rebecca Madsen

We like having visitors. Especially since we are living on the other side of the continent from all our family. So we were happy this week to visit with Rebecca's father who came out for a class that his employer offered to pay for. The visit, however, could not have come at a worse time for me. I was rarely home before 8:30 (or 9:30...) this week.

My monday class took a field trip to San Francisco for the day. Although I wasn't impressed with the visit to some non-profit exhibition spaces (I'd like to visit more), there were several good new works up at the SFMOMA. Afterwards, we got lost trying to find a studio in lower San Francisco and then waited outside a pizza place for over an hour to get some food. It was a long day, but the show at the SFMOMA on collecting was fantastic.

Because I got home late most nights, Rebecca cooked dinner (more often than usual) for her dad. She kept calling and asking questions about the recipe to make sure she was doing it right [more often it was the "recipes" for which we, or wayne, normally don't *have* recipes...that's why i had questions. i can follow a recipe when there *is* one! -beck]. By the end of the week, I finally had things under control for the show I put up this weekend. Thursday evening, we took Rebecca's dad out to Fry's electronics to look at toys. A couple funny things about our trip. First, when we got there, there was a line of people camped outside the store waiting for the new Sony Playstation to be released. We giggled at the craziness of people taking off work and camping for days waiting for a game system. While in the store, we found some freeze dried astronaut ice cream for sale and since Rebecca has never tried it before, we got some. I grew up with this stuff but somehow she missed the astronaut ice cream era. I really don't think she liked it; but I'm really not sure I like it either. [at first it is chalky, but then you leave it in your mouth to absorb liquid, and then it is warm...warm ice cream is just weird... -beck]

Also, Rebecca bought a super bouncy ball from a vending machine. And wouldn't put it down for a couple days. She took it everywhere with her and bounced it all through work. Silly girl.

Friday evening, even though I wasn't feeling well, we stayed on campus until midnight hanging some paintings for a show next week. Nothing much to report on the works, but since the opening is Tuesday night, I can tell you more about that later.

Church was good today. No more so than usual. Poor Rebecca had a hard time teaching the 5 year olds. They were very wiggly and to get them to calm down, she tried doing some wiggle exercises (to get the wiggles out of them), but unfortunately, this time it only made them more wiggly.

It happens.